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Fear in the Night · Beat 247 · permalink

Bedroom

51:56–52:17 Registered 1947

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 52:0352:03Frame at 52:1352:13

Play from 51:56 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 117 · shots 660–661. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bedroom (bedroom, interior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2
People
  • man, dark hair, wearing a light shirt and dark trousers with suspenders visible
  • person lying in bed, covered by a blanket, face partially visible visible
  • woman, dark hair, wearing light-colored nightwear, seated on bed visible
Seen happening
  • A man stands beside a bed where another person lies. [frame:1]
  • A man bends forward near a bedside lamp while a woman sits on the bed. [frame:2]
Seen
bed [frame:1, frame:2], bedside lamp [frame:2], telephone [frame:2], blanket [frame:1, frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, intimate; themes: confrontation, care, uncertainty; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white lighting, medium shots emphasizing proximity and emotional weight

A man stands beside a bed where another person lies, then bends over near a bedside lamp. A woman is visible in the same room, seated on the bed, as a man leans forward nearby.

“I took one because I kind of felt sorry for him.” 52:01 · “cough drops testing willpower. You seem to make something out of this silly thing. What is it? Just guessing. That's all.” 52:06 automatic transcript, may be wrong

The record

No renewal found An automated finding, not a verdict. A renewal would have appeared in the Copyright Office's renewal registrations 27 to 29 years after the term began. Those volumes are loaded and our parse of them found no matching renewal. If that is right, a work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year; the volumes are OCR of old print, and the method page reports how often the parse has been found to miss one. Evidence dossier. The finding concerns the US copyright record for the film; it is not clearance for any use, and this page's annotation is machine output.

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Frame from Fear in the Night (1947) at 52:03 (passage 51:56–52:17); US record: No renewal found

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